Dear colleagues,
We are happy to announce the publishing of the edited collection on
post-socialist urban infrastructures. The book is of interest to scholars
and practitioners working on new socio-technological, anthropological and
urban studies of infrastructures, those working on post-socialist
geographies and planning, and those interested in critical accounts of how
to think from an empirical starting point located in previously forgotten
territories, but aiming to have arguments beyond that limited site.
The book is open access and can be accessed here (OA link under "For
Librarians":
https://www.routledge.com/Post-Socialist-Urban-Infrastructures-1st-Edition/Tuvikene-Sgibnev-Neugebauer/p/book/9780815392651
and
direct link to OA version:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351190350 .
*Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures*
Edited by Tauri Tuvikene, Wladimir Sgibnev, Carola S. Neugebauer
*Description*
*Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures* critically elaborates on often
forgotten, but some of the most essential, aspects of contemporary urban
life, namely infrastructures, and links them to a discussion of
post-socialist transformation.
As the skeletons of cities, infrastructures capture the ways in which urban
environments are assembled and urban lives unfold. Focusing on
post-socialist cities, marked by neoliberalisation, polarisation and
hybridity, this book offers new and enriching perspectives on urban
infrastructures by centering on the often marginalised aspects of urban
research—transport, green spaces, and water and heating provision.
Featuring cases from West and East alike, the book covers examples from
Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Germany, Russia, Georgia, Lithuania,
Poland, the Czech Republic, Tajikistan, and India. It provides original
insights into the infrastructural back end of post-socialist cities for
scholars, planners and activists interested in urban geography, cultural
and social anthropology, and urban studies.
*Table of contents*
*1. Introduction: Linking Post-Socialist and Urban Infrastructures*
*Tauri Tuvikene, Wladimir Sgibnev and Carola S. Neugebauer*
*2. Energy Poverty in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): Understanding the
European Union’s core-periphery divide*
*Stefan Bouzarovski and Sergio Tirado Herrero*
*3. The Thermodynamics of the Social Contract: Making Infrastructures
Visible in the Case of District Heating in Two Towns in Serbia and Croatia*
*Deana Jovanović*
*4. Ideologies and Informality in Urban Infrastructure: The Case of Housing
in Soviet and Post-Soviet Baku*
*Sascha Roth*
*5. Changing times, persistent inequalities? Patterns of housing
infrastructure development in the South Caucasus*
*Joseph Salukvadze and David Sichinava*
*6. Post-Soviet ‘Nuclear’ Towns as Multi-Scalar Infrastructures: Relating
Sovereignty and Urbanity Through the Perspective of Visaginas*
*Siarhei Liubimau*
*7. Green Infrastructure in Post-Socialist Cities: Evidence and Experiences
from Eastern Germany, Poland and Russia*
*Dagmar Haase, Diana Dushkova, Annegret Haase, Jakub Kronenberg*
*8. Moscow Urban Development: Neoliberal Urbanism and Green Infrastructures*
*Daniela Zupan and Mirjam Büdenbender*
*9. Bengaluru’s urban water infrastructure through the lens of
post-socialism*
*Chandrima Mukhopadhyay and Tauri Tuvikene*
*10. Public Transport in Brno: From Socialist to Post-Socialist Rhythms*
*Ondřej Mulíček and Daniel Seidenglanz*
*11. Predictability and Propinquity on the Sofia Metro:* *Everyday Metro
Journeys and Long-Term Relations of Transport Infrastructuring*
*Anna Plyushteva*
*12. Infrastructures as Fluidities: How Marshrutkas Help Us to Overcome
Static Conceptions of Road-Based Mobility Service Provision*
*Tonio Weicker and Wladimir Sgibnev*
*13. Conclusion: Infrastructure and Post-Socialism in Theory and Practice*
*Carola S. Neugebauer, Wladimir Sgibnev and Tauri Tuvikene*
*Reviews*
“This is an important contribution to how we understand the often
over-looked role of urban infrastructure in post-socialist change. Covering
a tremendous range of places and debates – from water, heating and
transport to the consequences for theory, policy and practice - the book
powerfully reveals the centrality of infrastructure for urban life,
inequalities, development, and futures’ - *Colin McFarlane, Professor of
Urban Geography, Durham University, UK*
“The rich case studies in Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures demonstrate
how infrastructure can serve as a site for investigating both the
surprising persistence of socialist institutions and material forms, and
the effects of dramatic liberalization in countries of the former socialist
world. More than simply applying the tools of the "infrastructural turn" to
a new set of cases, the contributions capture the distinctive
infrastructure legacy of socialist modernity, as well as the sometimes
surprising pathways of post-socialist infrastructural change. The volume
impressively spans a range of disciplinary discussions—from urban studies
to city planning, geography, and STS—that are rarely brought together in
studies of infrastructure in the interpretive social sciences.” - *Stephen
J. Collier, Professor of City and Regional Planning at University of
California, Berkeley, USA*
--
Dr Deana Jovanović
Leibniz-DAAD Postdoctoral Fellow, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast
European Studies (IOS), Regensburg
Honorary Fellow, School of Social Science & Public Policy, Keele University
Visit: https://www.keele.ac.uk/sspp/people/staff/drdeanajovanovic/
https://manchester.academia.edu/DeanaJovanovic
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